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Magen David Adom UK supporters joined a four day mission to Israel, meeting President Isaac Herzog and several first responders from 7 October. The group received briefings, visited the northern border, met paramedics involved in recent attacks and explored MDA’s first response vehicles, including helicopters and lifeboats on the Kinneret.

Daniel Burger reflects on his early days as CEO of Magen David Adom UK. A visit to Israel and a shift on an MDA ambulance confirmed his decision to join. He highlights MDA’s global humanitarian work and recalls stepping straight into community events, including an interfaith gathering in Liverpool that showed the breadth of support for MDA.

August 2024 This summer over 400 UK teenagers from a variety of youth movements visited Magen David Adom in Israel to see how the organisation works and to find out about its response to the October 7th atrocities. Visiting the MDA Bloomberg station in Jerusalem, the tour participants interacted with MDA’s state-of-the-art ambulance simulator, took…

In light of the security situation in Israel, Magen David Adom stands on high alert with teams across the country deployed to save more lives.

Gisela Martin was a housekeeper who died with a modest estate. Little did she know that her former employer, the late Harry Fuld Jr – an industrialist who lost everything to the Nazis – had left her a collection of art and sculptures. By the time Fuld’s gift to his former employee was discovered, both were long gone. However, the Fuld estate passed to Martin and this became her estate.

Magen David Adom is Israel’s largest volunteer organisation and as anyone involved will testify, being part of MDA is like being part of one big family. The same is true here in the UK where our supporters do so much to raise funds up and down the country.

In May of this year, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, based in Lagos, Nigeria, returned to Israel for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic. The General Overseer, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, commissioned the church’s third donation to MDA, this time the gift of two ambulances.

Magen David Adom UK launched its Blood Drive for British olim in Israel with two landmark events in February. The events came just a fortnight after it was announced that, for the first time in a generation, those that lived in the UK were now eligible to give blood in Israel. The ban had been in place since 1999 due to the ‘Mad Cow Disease’ outbreak of the mid-90s.

Minister for Refugees Lord Richard Harrington has hailed the response of Jewish and Israeli organisations around the world to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, following Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Speaking at Magen David Adom UK’s annual Patrons’ Dinner he said, “Every border I’ve been to is full of Magen Davids”. The event, which…